Filter.



Patented lune 5, I9D0. R. T. -WEAVEl FILTER.

(Applicaftion led Nov. 23, 1899.)

2 Sheets Sheet I.

(NoModel.)

w: nomas PETERS co., Fuero-wma.. WASHINGTON. n. c.

No. 65I,I73. Patented lune 5, |900.

R. T. WEA-VER.

FI L T E R.

(Application led Nov. 28, 1899.)

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` NTTED `STATES PATENT Ferca@ ROBERT T. VEAVER, OF PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA.

FILTER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 651,173, dated June 5, 1900. Application filed November Z3, 1399. Serial No. 738,092. (No model.)

T0 CLM r11/tout t may concern.'

Be it known that I, ROBERT T. VEAVER, a citizen of the United States, residingin Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, have invented certain Improvements in Filters, of which the following is a specification.

The main object of my invention is to so construct a filter that the water will pass upward through one filtering-chamber and down through another.

A further object of the invention is to make a two-section filter, with the Water-inlets for the two sections at the center, in such a man- 11er that the filter can be readilyT taken apart, and a still further object of the invention is to provide ready means for cleansing the admission-chamber to the first filter.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a vertical sectional View of myimproved filter. Fig. 2 is a sectional plan View on the line 2 2, Fig. l; and Fig. 3 is a sectional view'on the line 3 3, Fig. l.

The filter has a base-section A, mounted in the present instance on suitable feet a a., and on this section is mounted the second filtering-chamber B. Adapted to a beveled seat in the section A is a perforated partitionplate C, having a screen c mounted upon it and held in place bythe spider c. The partition-plate C is clamped to its seat by the casing B, as clearly shown in the drawings.y

In this section l preferably place three layers of filtering material, as indicated. This may be any Suitable material-such as bone-black, charcoal, &c.-or a single ltering medium may be used 4in place of the three, if desired.

Resting in a beveled seat in the upper portion of the casingl Bis a cutting-plate b, having arms diamond-shaped in cross-section, as clearly shown in Fig. 3. This cutting-plate holds the filtering material in place, and when it is wished to cleanse the filtering material in the chamber B by reversing the current of water the material is forced up through the spaces between the arms, and the sharp edges of the plate break up any material that would form into lumps, so that when the filtering material settles again it will be in condition to properly filter the water passing through it. y

D is the intermediate section, and E is the upper or first filtering-chamber. The section section.

l/Vithin the chamber E, above the partition-` plate C, is a suitable filtering material, such as sand and gravel, preferably arranged 1n layers, and resting in a beveled seat in the` upper portion of the casing E isa partitionplate C2, havinga screen c4 and a spider c5.

F is a cap for the filter, which also holds the partition-plate C2 in place.

The several sections are flanged and bolted together as shown, thus rigidly holding the Several partition-plates in position.

Gis the inlet-pipe, which is connected to the water-main or other suitable source of supply, and this pipe enters the chamber d, as shown in Fig. 1, and is provided with a valve g, by which the supply of water can be cutoff.

I-I is a pipe communicating at its upper end with a chamber above the first filtering-section E. 'Ihe lower end of this pipe is connected to the inlet-pipe I-I, which extends into the chamber df of the second filtering- The pipe l-I' has a suitable valve h and has perforated heads I/,through which the water passes. The pipe is so situated and the perforations of such a size as to prevent the filtering material passing through the pipe during the cleansing process whenthe current through the filter is reversed.

t' is a pipe communicating with the bottom of the first inlet-chamber cl and with the pipeI I-I and has a suitable valve t". The pipe I'I is extended past the pipe H and'communicafes with the waste through a'trap h2.. A valve h3 is situated between the pipe II and the trap, so as to cut off communication between the pipe H and the waste.

J is an outlet-pipe for filtered water communicating with a pipe J', which in turn communicates with the chamber within the base A, which receives filtered water from the second filtering-chamber. In the pipe J is a valvej, and in the pipe J is a valvej'. Coupled to the pipes between the two valves is a Ioo connecting-pipe K, communicating with the The operation ot the device is as follows:

Suitable filtering materials are placed in the chambers B and E, and when the several sections are coupled together the valve g of the inlet-pipe G is opened, the valve 7o closed, the valvesjj opened, the Valve 7L of the pipe H opened, and the valves i and h3 closed. The water will then pass through the filter in the direction indicated by the arrows, first into the chamber cl, then up through the filtering material in the chamber E, through thepipes II and Il into the chamber d', down through the filtering material in the chamber B, and out the outlet-pipes J and J. By this arrangement the water is doubly filtered. If it is wished to clean the inlet-chamber t?, all that is necessary is to open the valves t" and h3 and close the valve 7i., when the water entering the chamber cl will pass out the pipe 't to waste, carrying with it any sediment or mud collected in the chamber. Vhen it is desired to use the lower filteringchamber only, the valves h3 and 71, in the pipes II may be closed and the Valves t' and h opened, when the water will pass through the chamber d, through the pipes i and Il' into the chamber d', and through the Vfiltering material in the chamber B. Theil it is wished to cleanse the lower filtering-chamber l5, the valve g is closed, as well as the Valve j, andthe valve k is opened. The Valves t and 7L" are also closed and the valves 7L and 7a3 opened, so that the water will pass through the inlet-pipe G, down the pipe K, through the pipe J", up through the filtering material in the chamber B, through the pipe Il' to the pipe II and to waste. The water passing up through the filtering material will agit-ate the mass, earrying ofi' any foreign matter on the surface of the filtering material, at the same time closing up any direct waterways iliade through the filtering material.

I claim as my inventionl. The combination in a filter, of two see- 'tions each having filtering material therein, a central section having two chambers, one for the inlet of water to the first filtering-section and the other for the inlet of water to the second filtering-chamber, inlet and outlet pipes connected to the filter, and a pipe connecting the upper filtering-section to the lower filtering-section, substantially as described.

2. The combination of the two filtering-sections, a central section having two chambers therein, one for the inlet of water to the first filtering-chamber and the other for the inlet l of water to the second filtering-chamber, an inlet-pipe communicating with the first filtering-chamber, a pipe communicating with the upper end of the first filtering-chamber and the inlet-chamber of the second filter and with the waste, and an outlet-pipe for filtered water communicating with the bottom of said second filtering-chamber, substantially as described.

3. The combination in a filter, of the two filtering-chambers, one mounted above the other, a section mounted between thev two filtering-chambers and containing the inletchambers for the first and second filteringchambers, an inlet-pipe communicating with the upper chamber of the section, a pipe communicating with the upper end of the first filtering-chamber and with the inlet-chamber of the second filter with the waste and with a pipe leading from the bottom of the first inlet-chamber, a pipe communicating with the bottom of the filter and connected' to the water-supply and to the outlet for filtered water, and valves in the several pipes by which the flow of water t-hrough the filter is controlled, substantially as described.

4. The combination of the base A,.a perlforated partition-plate mounted thereon, a

casing B' containing filtering material, a cutting-plate I mountedthereon, a casing D having a solid partition-plate (l2 separating the said casing into two chambers (Z and d', a perforated partition-plate mounted on the caso. The combination in a filter, air inlet- `chamber at the upper end and an outletchamber at the base, a supply-pipe, an outlet for filtered water, a pipe at the base coml munioating with the supply-pipe and with the outlet for filtered water, an inlet-pipe com# inunicating with the supply-pipe,a waste-pipe, valves in the several pipes, a cutting-plate mounted above the filtering material in the chamber, the arms of said cutting-plate being diamond-shaped in cross-section, providing sharp upper and lower edges, said valves `being so arranged that the water in filtering lwill pass down through the filtering material and the water in washing will pass up through `the filtering material, substantially as described.

In testimony "whereof I have signed my name to this specification in the presence ot' `two subscribing witnesses.

ROBERT T. WEAVER.

Vitnesses:

WILL. A. BARR, Jos. II. KLEIN.

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